I would think of all places that we, as a Mean Green fanbase, would understand not to jump to conclusions after a coach has one good year. Apparently, that would be wrong of me.
Let's teach them to use something different. Seems appropriate in today's world. Some ideas:
"All glory to God, I am taking my talents to UNT. #ThisPlaceForNow"
"I am 110% halfway-in to NMSU."
"Thank you Happy Valley! 110% #HereUntilTheNextPlaceTalksMeOuttaThis"
P5 quality is very subjective. Is Boston College p5 quality? Is Rutgers? Etc. Etc. Well, according to their conference commissioners... they are. Smu is no less than those middling/cellar p5 programs. Many of g5 programs could surpass those type programs with the proper patch/tv revenue.
I don't have to guess. Here are the games and here are the ratings: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/
Week 7. UNT vs Temple, 37k viewers. The big names are getting 3/4/7 Million viewers. Our 37k viewers are are a drop in the ocean. Week 12 we did 618k vs SMU on ESPN2. We'd have to triple those numbers to make people notice us.
You may get tired of them, but the general public does not. There's a reason the same few teams are featured on national TV every week, and if people were tired of them they wouldn't be.
There's no way we would have any kind of network interest with decent money if we broke away from the power schools.
This^ It's all about the patch.
$mut used to have a SWC patch before they got kicked out of the group.
They saw another chance to "buy-a-patch" with the ACC, so they will spend $40 million for it. To them the value of the patch is what it is all about....image, and nothing else. $40 million won't make them P5-quality, even if the patch says they are.
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